Half-car floating device based on load feedback and half-car position tracking method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11067480-B2
Application number	US-201816236632-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2018
Priority date	Jun 21, 2018
Publication date	Jul 20, 2021
Grant date	Jul 20, 2021

Abstract

Disclosed is a half-vehicle floating device and a half-vehicle position tracking method based on load feedback. The device includes a rack, an active platform, a position-measuring triangle frame and a position-measuring platform. Guide rails corresponding to the active platform and the position-measuring platform are provided vertically on the rack. The active platform and the position-measuring platform are respectively placed on a corresponding rail through a slider. The bottom of the active platform is hinged to a first corner of an active triangle frame through an active slider rod, and a second corner of the active triangle is hinged to the rack and connected to an inverter motor through a transmission device. The bottom of the position-measuring platform is hinged to a first corner of the position-measuring triangle frame through a position measuring slider rod, and a second corner of the position-measuring triangle frame is hinged to the rack.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A half-vehicle floating device based on load feedback, comprising a rack, an active triangle frame, an active platform, guide rails, a position-measuring triangle frame and a position-measuring platform;
guide rails corresponding to the active platform and the position-measuring platform are provided vertically on the rack;
the active platform and the position-measuring platform are respectively placed on a corresponding rail through a slider;
the bottom of the active platform is hinged to an upper end of an active slider rod, a lower end of the active slider rod is hinged to a first corner of the active triangle frame, and a second corner of the active triangle frame is hinged to the rack and connected to an inverter motor through a transmission device;
the bottom of the position-measuring platform is hinged to an upper end of a position-measuring slider rod, a lower end of the position-measuring slider rod is hinged to a first corner of the position-measuring triangle frame, and a second corner of the position-measuring triangle frame is hinged to the rack;
a third corner of the active triangle frame is hinged to an end of a pull rod, and the other end of the pull rod is hinged to a third corner of the position-measuring triangle frame; and
a plurality of weighing sensors are provided on the position-measuring platform.

2. The half-vehicle floating device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of weighing sensors are arranged evenly in the middle of the position-measuring platform.

3. The half-vehicle floating device of claim 1 , wherein the transmission device comprises a flange, a power transfer shaft and a right-angled reducer; wherein the flange is mounted at the second corner of the active triangle frame, and one end of the power transfer shaft is connected to the flange, the other end of the power transfer shaft is connected to the output shaft of the right-angled reducer, and the input shaft of the right-angled reducer is connected to the inverter motor.

4. The half-vehicle floating device based on load feedback of claim 3 , wherein a pair of grooves is provided on the flange, and a pair of grooves is provided correspondingly on the end of the power transfer shaft facing the active triangle frame; wherein the power transfer shaft is connected to the flange through a power transfer mass arranged in the grooves of the flange and the power transfer shaft.

5. The half-vehicle floating device based on load feedback of claim 3 , wherein the right-angled reducer and the inverter motor are mounted on a base of the active platform; wherein the bottom of the base of the active platform is fixed at the bottom of the rack, and the guide rails are linear ball guide rails and the inverter motor is an inverter motor with brakes.

6. A half-vehicle position tracking method using the half-vehicle floating device based on load feedback of claim 1 , comprising:
1) placing two support plates of the same thickness on the active platform and the position-measuring platform respectively, and calibrating collected data of the weighing sensors to 0;
2) placing the vehicle to be tested on the device, such that the chassis of the vehicle is in contact with the active platform and the position-measuring platform in a symmetric manner, wherein an excitation side is provided close to the position-measuring platform;
3) determining the operating frequency f of the inverter motor from the displacement and frequency of the half-vehicle sinusoidal excitation signal based on the tracking speed being equal to the maximum excitation speed during control of the half-vehicle floating and tracking;
4) collecting measuring signal of the weighing sensors and determining a load identifying signal p according to an average value;
5) determining a relative position between the position-measuring platform and the chassis, and controlling the inverter motor to operate and track:
when the load identifying signal value is greater than 0 and not greater than a contact identifying upper limit p sx , the inverter motor brakes and stops; when the average measurement value of the weighing sensors is less than 0, the inverter motor reverses, driving the active platform up through the active triangle frame, and the active platform approaches the test frame; when the average measurement value of the weighing sensors is greater than the contact identifying upper limit p sx , the inverter motor drives forward, driving the active platform down through the active triangle frame, and the active platform moves away from the test frame.

7. The half-vehicle position tracking method of claim 6 , wherein the operating frequency of the inverter motor in step (3) is determined as:

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Assignees

• Univ Hunan Science & Technology

Inventors

• Guo Yong
• Chen Zhewu
• Tong Ningke
• Dai Juchuan
• Yang Shuyi
• Ling Qihui
• Li Hongzhou

Classifications

• G01M17/04 Primary

  Suspension or damping · CPC title

• H02P27/04

  using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage · CPC title

• H02K7/10

  Structural association with clutches, brakes, gears, pulleys or mechanical starters · CPC title

• G01M13/00 Primary

  Testing of machine parts · CPC title

• H02P23/24

  Controlling the direction, e.g. clockwise or counterclockwise · CPC title